New Year's holiday with quarantine restrictions

Written: 8 january 2021
Travel time: 27 december 2020 — 6 january 2021
Your rating of this hotel:
9.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 5.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 7.0
Food: 10.0
Amenities: 10.0
The hotel complex impresses with its endless territory and contains 8 hotels and private villas. According to the level of services, you can choose any hotel to your liking. The base hotel is Oasis, the most expensive - Prestige. Understand the features of each of the hotels conveniently on its own website https:// www. dominacoralbay. com / ru / ocharovatel-nyye-oteli-sharm-el-sheykh
Although the buildings of the Oasis are quite far from the beaches, the hotel rooms offer magnificent views of the salt lake and the sea. From the terraces and balconies of the rooms we met the unsurpassed beauty of the sunrise every morning.
Quarantine, as everywhere, limiting the level of services and the number of hotel guests.
Of the all-inclusive restaurants, only the main Coral restaurant hosted guests. The choice of dishes of the restaurant was small, but the food is very tasty and beautifully decorated.

There were always a couple of meat dishes of chicken and beef, fish (pangasius, tuna, mackerel, sea bream) or seafood (squid, crab), dishes of potatoes, pasta, rice, stewed or steamed vegetables, salads and cold appetizers. Impressed by the excellent taste and exquisite design of cakes and desserts, a variety of fruits (oranges, tangerines, grapefruits, persimmons, guavas, dates, melons). The buffet dishes chosen by the guests were served by the staff through the windows, the tables were served with packed individual cutlery.
All the staff of the restaurant in masks, there are paramedics everywhere, the temperature at the entrance is measured carefully. Unfortunately, the a la carte restaurants did not work. Instead, there was a restaurant on The Beach, which offered its guests a menu and an evening show for a fee. There was also a spa. The children's club was also closed, but a mini-disco was held daily on the main beach near the bar.
Darts, yoga and beach volleyball were also available. The evening on the stage of the Arena every day, except Sunday, showed a show program. It is worth writing about it separately. The concert numbers were at the highest level - professional sound, lighting, great costumes. The dance team and presenters delighted the audience with bright themed programs, I really enjoyed the evening dedicated to the memory of Michael Jackson, the musical Moulin Rouge was spectacular. The animation team consisted mainly of Slavs and Italians, the rest of the staff are Egyptians, most are fluent in Russian, English and Italian. The staff is friendly and courteous.
In my opinion, there were few guests in the hotel complex, the percentage was 20 percent. Until the new year, we saw guests with bracelets from Oasis, Aquamarine, Sultan. The vast majority are from Ukraine. There were Belarusians, Kazakhs and Russians, and there were quite a few noisy Italians.

Egyptians also visited the hotel to celebrate the New Year. Due to coronavirus restrictions, the Egyptian authorities banned the active celebration of the New Year, but the hotel staff delighted all its guests with delicious festive dishes for dinner at the main restaurant, bright concert numbers of the animation team and live vocals on the stage of street cafe Mosaic. New Year's Eve was a success, it was fun and a real holiday. After the new year, the contingent of guests has changed a bit. The majority of Italians left, more Russians and Kazakhs appeared. And in general the number of people increased. Guests with bracelets from the Elizir and Harem hotels began to catch the eye.
I want to write separately about the territory. She is incredible! Huge, well equipped, green, well-groomed. The territory is so large that 3 local taf-taf routes run on it.
You can rent a golf car and ride in the area, which contains many locations for great photos. Every day I arranged a walk through the area before dinner and every day I had new routes and beautiful views. The coastline of the hotel complex is quite wide, about 1.8 km, and the reef is just fabulous! There are 3 pontoons, each of which is different and unique reef. Be sure to take a mask, the impressions are incredible! I was also impressed by the sunbeds on the beach - I had never encountered structures equipped with canopies from the sun. This is brilliant.
Fans of excursions and extreme recreation can choose tours for an additional fee, but do not rush to buy tours at your hotel. The hotel complex has Domina Travel, which can offer more interesting options - the Domina complex has its own yacht and a well-equipped diving center.
I think I would like to return to this hotel again.
If you do not worry about the modest and shabby arrangement of rooms, careless cleaning of rooms and a very weak and unstable signal of the hotel WiFi, everything was at the highest level. We easily solved the problem with the Internet by purchasing a local Vodafone card.
I really enjoyed the holiday, the hotel is decent and I will recommend it to my friends.
Translated automatically from Ukrainian. View original